Found 3 items, similar to sputtering.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: sputtering terbatuk-batuk
English → English (WordNet) Definition: sputtering sputtering adj : emitting or making sporadic spitting or popping sounds; “the sputtering engine”; “spluttering electric arcs” [syn: spluttering] n : the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively; “he heard a spatter of gunfire” [syn: spatter, spattering, splatter, splattering, sputter, splutter]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Sputtering Sputter \Sput"ter\ (sp[u^]t"t[~e]r), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sputtered (-t[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Sputtering.] [From the root of spout or spit to eject from the mouth. Cf. Splutter.] 1. To spit, or to emit saliva from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking. [1913 Webster] 2. To utter words hastily and indistinctly; to speak so rapidly as to emit saliva. [1913 Webster] They could neither of them speak their rage, and so fell a sputtering at one another, like two roasting apples. --Congreve. [1913 Webster] 3. To throw out anything, as little jets of steam, with a noise like that made by one sputtering. [1913 Webster] Like the green wood . . . sputtering in the flame. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]